So you’ve got a nice collection of contacts, how, why and how often should you keep in touch with them. Here’s 18 simple ways to start with. Email, ‘Tweet’, or other message ‘just to say hi’. Email with interesting snippet from a magazine or the web. Phone them for a for a chat and…
Here’s an example of the Prezi presentation that I used in my short speech to ‘The Inspired Group’ meeting in Cambridge, UK this evening. The subject was ‘How to add wisdom, guile and breadth to your inner circle…’ for entrpreneurs and small business owners who are members of this lively and well-run networking group. Thanks…
To cut to the chase, when undertake any kind of networking activity, it’s our intentions that often shine through our best efforts to hide them. The best networkers understand this and are careful to check their intentions before the enter the room. Why? Because if our intentions are venal, they’ll show, in the end. It…
Here’s a much used clip of Steve Jobs launching the Mac-book Air way back in 2008. I think that Steve Jobs was a competent presenter, no more, but with 2 advantages over the rest of us- He represented the best marketing company in the world He walked into the room as Steve Jobs. Which gives…
I’m speaking at a City (London) networking event next week, for Mercer, a top Actuarial, Imvestment and Outsourcing firm. I’ve been doing the pre-work with my contact, Eve Read who has helped set up ‘The Vine’, an internal training & networking group. She’s helped me to understand what she thinks would be useful for her…
It’s a scene that happens so often. You’re chatting and having a lovely time at a work event. The someone asks you what you do. What do you do? There are, broadly, 3 options available- Start talking about you and notice that after 45 seconds your questioner has glazed over and moved into ‘I’ll keep…
I heard Olivia Coleman, a rising star of the UK stage and small screen give a funny and interesting interview on BBC Radio 4 this week. I was intrigued to hear her saying that she deals with her constant stage fright by blanking the audience out of her mind completely, which is the opposite of…
I’ve talked a few times about ‘elevator pitches’ before, and as so often happens, we like the idea of having an interesting, short, enticing pitch for all seasons but we don’t ever get round to creating one. Do we? It’s useful for that moment when someone asks us what we do for a living, and…
Understanding the ‘stroke economy’ Claude Steiner suggests that, as children, we are all indoctrinated by our parents with five restrictive rules about stroking. we don’t get them all, necessarily, just the special combination that our parents had etched into them by theirs. But the ‘menu’ includes being taught- not to give strokes when we have…